Best practice: How to track outbound links?

Question

How do you track outbound links for your web site, since the request is logged on the destination server, not yours?

Answer 1

You can add a quick JQuery script to the page that will track external links and can either redirect them to a file on your server that will track the link and then forward to it, or add an ajax request that will submit on click for external links, and track them that way.

See:

• http://www.prodevtips.com/2008/08/19/tracking-clicks-with-jquery-and-google-analytics/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090214024330/http://www.justskins.com/development/how-to-track-clicks-on-outgoing-links/132